Sentences with phrase «debut of filmmaker»

Columbus is the feature directorial debut of a filmmaker known as «Kogonada», a Korean cinephile who previously made video essays that achieved quite a bit of acclaim online.

As You Are is the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Miles Joris - Peyrafitte, premiering at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and it will hopefully give Miles the break he needs to make more films - because he seems to be a very talented storyteller.

Here's the second trailer for Ingrid Goes West, a satire of Instagram culture and obsession that marks the directorial debut of filmmaker Matt Spicer.

Freestyle Digital Media has released an official trailer for an indie psychological thriller titled A Good Dream, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Mahum Jamal, which premiered at a few smaller film festivals last year.

This one is titled The Ranger, and it's the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Jenn Wexler, who has worked as a producer on a bunch of great indie films before this.

IFC Midnight has unveiled an official trailer for a horror thriller titled Desolation, the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Sam Patton.

Gritty and almost unbearably intense, this British drama not only offers yet another terrific performance from Michael Caine, but it also marks the feature debut of a filmmaker to watch.Harry Brown (Caine) lives on a...

The directorial debut of the filmmaker and made with the support of the BFI and Creative England, it demonstrates the role Netflix can play in spotlighting British talent.

Rules of Dating (Hangul: 연애의 목적; RR: Yeonae - ui mokjeok) is a 2005 South Korean film starring Park Hae - il and Kang Hye - jung, and is the directorial debut of filmmaker Han Jae - rim.

«Hand of God,» the TV debut of filmmaker Marc Forster («Monster's Ball»), will star Ron Perlman («Sons of Anarchy») as a powerful judge who suffers a mental breakdown and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist who tore his family apart.

Editor's note: «Blood Simple,» the feature debut of filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen opens Friday at the Nuart with a new 4k restoration from the original 35 mm negative that was supervised and approved by the Coen brothers, along with director of photography Barry Sonnenfeld.

Not exact matches

Nigerian writer and filmmaker, Onyeka Nwelue, whose debut documentary film, The House of Nwapa premiered in the US at Harvard University recently, has kicked - off a new political party, urging young people in Nigeria to join hands with him to dethrone President Muhammadu Buhari.

The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Utah - based filmmaker Andrew Black makes his feature debut with Pride & Prejudice: A Latter - Day Comedy.

«White Shadow,» the first feature from Berlin - based Israeli filmmaker Noaz Deshe, which plays Sundance this weekend having already picked up the Best Debut award in Venice, mired us deep in this quandary, being a story, bruisingly told, set in the horrifying world of «albino hunting» in Tanzania, where local superstitions have led to a lucrative trade in albino body parts believed by witch doctors to have mystical properties.

The feature debut of writer - director Aimee Lagos, the film feels overstuffed and overcooked, as if the filmmaker were trying to get too much out all in one go.

This moody screen adaptation of the Oprah - endorsed eponymous bestseller by Andre Dubus III's isn't a slam - dunk success, but it has plenty of sleeper potential and is a feather in the cap of director Perelman, a Russian émigré who debuts here as a feature filmmaker after a career in commercials.

A perceptive, unsettling psychodrama marking the assured feature writing and directing debut of shorts filmmaker Kyle Henry.

The Proposition is a promisingly decent debut for Hillcoat, who on the basis of The Road seems to be improving as a filmmaker.

Ever since he first burst upon the scene in 1988 with his hypnotic debut feature «Tales from the Gimli Hospital,» Guy Maddin has been one of those filmmakers whose new work I most eagerly look forward to seeing.

Shot entirely on location in Barrow, Alaska, On The Ice is the engrossing and suspenseful feature film debut by filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean about two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town.

Novelist - turned - filmmaker Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty, about a young prostitute (Emily Browning) whose clients prefer her to be unconscious, perfectly melds its formal rigor to notions of social and gender - specific enslavement; it's the incredible debut feature of 2011.

Welcome to Willits is directed by filmmaker Trevor Ryan, making his feature directorial debut after a number of short films.

In addition, one of the organization's core values is identifying new talent and nurturing young filmmakers by awarding promising talent with «Directorial Debut» and «Breakthrough Actor» awards as well as grants to rising film students and by facilitating community outreach through the support of organizations such as The Ghetto Film School, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, and Educational Video Center.

Click for showtimes and tickets — DF Dark Touch France's Marina de Van isn't the easiest filmmaker to love (In My Skin, her 2002 debut, took on the shocking subject of self - cannibalism).

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

A claustrophobic mix of Dead Poets» Society and Lord of the Flies, Cracks is an outstanding debut from a filmmaker worth watching.

The US debut of Belgian filmmaker Michaël R. Roskam (2011's Bullhead), The Drop, based on Dennis Lehane's short story, melds European sensibilities with the tropes of an American crime picture.

Antiviral is the directorial debut of one Brandon Cronenberg, son of the legendarily twisted filmmaker David Cronenberg, and it involves celebrity obsession taken to the extremes.

A Picture of You is a sharp, mischievous family drama from filmmaker J.P. Chan, who wrote, directed, and produced his genre-less feature debut, which opens on June 20th at AMC

In The Stolen Man (El hombre robado), Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro's 2007 debut feature, a young woman navigates her way through two different schemes: the stealing and subsequent selling of artifacts from the museum she works at and a series of encounters with friends and lovers that she aims to manipulate towards an ambiguous endgame.

It's the directing debut of Edgerton, though, a smart and capable actor — not that the floor of movie history isn't littered with the well - intentioned debuts of actors - turned - filmmakers.

It's the directorial debut of screenwriter Eskil Vogt, who co-wrote the films Reprise (2006), Oslo, August 31st (2011) and Louder Than Bombs (2015) with friend and fellow filmmaker Joachim Trier, and it has a similar sensibility.

Filmmaker Karyn Kusama has at last fulfilled the promise she showed in her knockout feature debut, «Girlfight,» a pugilistic coming - of - age drama from 2000 that also launched the career of its scrappy star, Michelle Rodriguez.

Blizzard filmmaker Jamie Stuart debuts four new shorts that document the renovation and construction of Lincoln Center's Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.

The directorial debut of Ruairi Robinson, the young Oscar - nominated Irish filmmaker who at one time was set to helm the «Akira» remake, it might seem to have a generic set - up, but if Robinson's shorts are anything to go by, we should expect to see something visually spectacular.

After shooting, Lanthimos began preparation to shoot The Favourite but then turned back to The Killing of a Sacred Deer after the filmmaking team watched footage and figured the feature could be finished in time for a premiere at Cannes, where the filmmaker's previous films The Lobster and Dogtooth debuted.

Information on A Bittersweet Life filmmaker Ji - woon's English - language debut Last Stand is just as scarce, with the majority of details remaining a mystery.

Southside With You by debut feature filmmaker Richard Tanne had one of the highest grossing starts, in terms of absolute numbers, for a Specialty release.

Written and directed by debut feature filmmaker, Arran Shearing, Forgotten Man follows Carl, a homeless man struggling to get by on the streets of London until he began working with a theatre company in East London for the homeless.

6 The Club Pablo Larraín just made his U.S. directing debut with Jackie, a ghostly portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy in the week after the president's assassination, but this 2015 Chilean feature, which premiered in Chicago earlier this year at Gene Siskel Film Center, shows the filmmaker working closer to home both geographically and psychologically.

Michael Pearce both writes and directs in his feature debut, and in doing so announces himself as a filmmaker of real verve.

The critic, after referring to «Nick Gomez's astounding, explosive debut,» went on: «Director Gomez, 29, who made the picture on a minuscule budget of $ 38,000, is the newest (and maybe the most gifted) member of a young generation of filmmakers — Spike Lee and Oliver Stone among them — who watched Martin Scorsese's «Mean Streets» and came away dying to make movies.

The aspiring filmmaker had his own vision, however, and made his feature debut the next year with Laws of Gravity.

Every once in a while, a filmmaker who bursts on the scene with a debut so impressive that it heralds the arrival of a major talent.

This dud happens to come from filmmaker Cameron Crowe, whose credits include his memorable 1982 screenwriting debut, «Fast Times at Ridgemont High,» and his writing / directing of 1996's «Jerry Maguire.»

It's only Ryan Coogler's third feature — and an ambitious leap from his impressive 2013 debut, Fruitvale Station, and his critically acclaimed Rocky franchise entry, Creed (2015)-- but Black Panther is executed with the confidence of a far more experienced filmmaker.

Emerging Swiss filmmaker Lisa Brűhlmann discusses her feature debut, coming - of - age drama Blue My Mind combining harsh reality and myth

Annihilation is the second film directed by novelist - turned screenwriter - turned - filmmaker Alex Garland, and it proves a worthy follow - up to his directorial debut, Ex Machina (2015), a clinical psychodrama that used an artificial intelligence robot to force us to question the fundamental essence of humanity.

The Art Of Getting By, formerly known as Homework, was both written and directed by up - and - coming filmmaker Gavin Wiesen, who's making his feature debut after a short film in 2008 called Kill the Day.

The weekend takes a terrifying turn when a meteorite crashes the party forcing everyone to face the darkest, screaming extraterrestrial nightmare imaginable... The Gracefield Incident is written and directed by up - and - coming filmmaker Mathieu Ratthe, making his feature directorial debut after a number of short films previously.